We leave fingerprints on doorknobs, on books, on walls and on keyboards. Since each person’s fingerprints are unique, we leave our identity on everything we touch. Some supermarkets are even testing a technology that allows customers to pay by fingerprint. Each customer’s unique print and bank account number are kept on file so that the only thing needed to pay is a scan of their finger.

A woman in the early church left another kind of print—a ‘heart print’. Dorcas touched many people’s lives through her unique gift of sewing and giving away garments. She’s described as “full of good works and charitable deeds” (Acts 9:36). We too are to be “zealous for good works” (Titus 2:14). We each have a unique heart print that can help another. An unknown author wrote this prayer about encouraging others: “O God, wherever I go today, help me leave heart prints! Heart prints of compassion, understanding and love. Heart prints of kindness and genuine concern. May my heart help a lonely neighbour or runaway daughter or anxious mother or even an old grand­father. Send me out today to leave heart prints. And if someone should say, ‘I felt your love,’ may that one sense Your love reaching through me.”

Will you make this your prayer today?

Author

Anne Cetas

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Our Daily Bread